We all know the ancient Europeans knew best, and so if you have to eat you really only have two options - Roman day-long gala or two Spartan boys fighting to the death over who gets the last scrap of food.

Zyklon B was a pesticide and was sold up until at least 2000. It may be still for sale under some name or another. Anything can be weaponized. Are knives not weapons because we can cook with them? Baseball bats? Flare guns? If you don't have anything to say other than "here are some facts comp...

Google's home assistant is designed to be triggered by the phrase "OK Google", which it did. That's like saying if I happen to come across the key to your home, I'm allowed to walk right in and do what I want. If neither the owners of the device nor the creators of the device meant for th...

According to your quote it seems like it might fall under "exceeds authorized access" and the object of the fraud was the use of the computer, so maybe? They should make a The Good Fight (seeing as we don't have The Good Wife anymore) episode about this.

Disagree. Pop-up ads are intended to activate when you're using your web browser, which they do. Google's home assistant is not designed to be triggered by TV commercials, it's definitely not the intended use.

At very least, now I need to make sure that Why? Why do you need to make sure of that? As for the content of the thread, people discuss off-topic things. It happens. We talk about the people mentioned in the film, disconnected from the film itself. We talk about our apprehensions regarding watching...

I see your point. But to me it just seems strange to judge a movie like that based on a single scene, even if you're only doing the judging in your head while watching the rest of the movie. There's just so many directions a movie can go in after such a scene. I apologize then, because it's clear I...

It was set IN Mexico. What ethnicity did you expect the thieves to be? I suppose they could have just cast white people for every role in the movie, regardless of where the movie was set, but I suspect that would have also led to charges of racism. You don't have to be a dick about this. I said it ...

It really bothered me it was a bunch of Mexicans getting slaughtered by Wolverine as the first action scene. The rest of the movie rectified that, but it didn't make a good first impression. It just seemed like lazy, racist writing (bad hombres and shit like that).

Sexual assault that targets men is laughed off not because of feminism, but because of toxic masculinity - (a) men are strong and women are weak, so it's impossible for a man to be raped by a woman, and (b) men always want sex, so anyone claiming they didn't want it is joking or a weirdo - which is...

The game balances itself pretty well. I think we ended up playing... 16 or 17 rounds? Every time you lose, you gain two more funding cards which help a ton - delay epidemics and give you useful powers. And I believe there's an "open this if you lose four times in a row" box, too. Once we m...

Unless you have the specific methodology used in the survey on how they classified 'rape victims', I'm not sure you should trust that data set for argumentative purposes. Lucky for you, this is a research done by academics, and they do have specific methodology for these things. Unfortunately for y...

Let me put it this way - a ridiculously low number of sexual assaults and rape are actually reported to the authorities 1 . Even assuming ALL rape accusations are fake, the number of actual rapes vastly outnumbers the complaints. 1 From the same study I mentioned, out of ~250 people they've intervie...

There are also arguments for separation - keeping girls safe, for instance. Those arguments are usually wrong and misguided (sexual assault, for instance, is no less prevalent in all-girl colleges), but they exist.

I played it with four people and really enjoyed myself, but I've heard from plenty of people exactly what pseudo said. Generally Pandemic is easier with fewer characters, so you could choose to just play one character each. However, in order to experience more aspects of the game, you might have mor...

Also it's worth noting that reporting rape is almost always a terrible experience for the reporter. I actually know quite a bit about this because my husband has been working for over a year on a study regarding sexual harassment and rape on Columbia university campuses. Of all the people they've in...

If somehow "separate but equal" actually was true, then certainly at the very least a constitutional argument could be made for it. Would still be a bad idea for a whole slew of other reasons of course. The quote isn't "If separate but equal was true then the original reason it was d...

That sounds great! I made this vegetarian matzo ball soup for the friends we're seeing tonight (not a seder, just having dinner). It was my first time making matzo ball soup, I think, and it turned out pretty well. I was surprised at the addition of saffron but it really did bring an additional flav...

Spicer's said plenty of really stupid stuff but at least with this I can see the kernel of sanity buried in the statement somewhere. Well I can't. First, what the fuck is he doing bringing up Hitler as a comparison at all? Second, no, Hitler was way worse than Assad. Third, saying German Jews aren'...

Has a conscience? The way to save Syrian children's lives is to give them access to safe spaces. He should open the borders if he cares so much about children. This seems a lot more like an intelligent adviser telling him what to do so he can be praised for his actions.

Dunno about the rest of you, but I'd lay out a fair amount of cash for even a marginally better chance of avoiding cavity drilling. Certainly I'm willing fork over the cost of a new electric toothbrush every few years. Agreed. Also my experience with dentists in the US has been not great. Would lik...

A combination of: we keep them as pets, they traditionally had uses for pest control, they are cute, and they are obligate carnivores and thus wasteful to grow for meat. Oh, and we can emotionally relate to cats and dogs. Supposedly. You still haven't convinced me the loyal soldier thing is a thing...